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Over 400,000 students begin BECE

A total of 461, 013 candidates from 14,267 public and private junior high schools are due to write the examination which is expected to last till Friday, June 17, 2016.

 

The candidates; 239,963 males and 221,050 females, would write the examination to be supervised by 15,695 invigilators, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has indicated.

The Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, in a goodwill message to the BECE candidates at a ceremony in Accra last Friday said “The rules and regulations governing the examinations have all been explained to you; just follow them and entertain no plans of deviating from them”, and “there is nothing more important than success that comes through your own efforts.”

The minister added that various stakeholders including government, families, care-givers, as well as teachers, who have played their roles as expected of them are looking forward to very good outcomes of the examinations.

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Meanwhile, Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper and Social Commentator, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has questioned why the Ghana Education Service should schedule the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) during the rainy season.

He believed candidates might be exposed to danger, considering they will be forced to go out there in spite of heavy rains in order to write their exams.

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